... deficient vices must always be pursued. Vices cause us to not act virtuous in dealing with pleasure and pain. An illustration of this could be when a person endures pain with courage, he or she is balancing pain and pleasure. This balance becomes an index of the person's virtue. There are two different aspects of the soul: the irrational and the rational ... absence of debt is not sufficient as proof of wealth. Perfecting virtue is difficult because virtue is considered as a mean state, sitting between two corresponding vices. Courage is a virtue, but just as too little courage is the v...

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... by what he said, then, Platonically and Socratically dispute the answer. Inevitably, Plato believed that justice is a virtue; that there are three parts to the soul with three virtues; wisdom, courage and temperance. He believed that only if these three parts worked together in harmony, can there be a just man. He proved this by paralleling a "just man" with that of a "just ... society"; wisdom, the mind or to rule and make decisions, courage, the heart, enforces the decisions, and temperance, the body, the people who follow the rules. Together these components, working together in unis...

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... based on the body and our unreliable. The Philosopher Kings must come to decisions based on sound reason. Then there are the Guardians who protect society and must aspire to courage. Neither the Philosopher Kings nor the Guardians raise children; have a family life, or own private property. They should focus their entire lives on serving the state. The vast number of ... is a faculty of the soul, the head has reason, the chest has will, and the abdomen has appetite. Each soul faculty has a virtue: reason aspires to wisdom, will aspires to courage, and appetite must be curbed so temperan...

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... system the family had no control over the education of its members. The state was controlling all aspects of education. The great purpose of education at Sparta was to develop courage through test and trials which were sometimes almost barbarous. The one great draw-back of the system of education was that it developed ... courage and physique both at the neglect of mind and soul. Plato borrowed from Sparta the social aspect of education that it must be controlled by the state with a view to ... to believe but it"ll do us & our children immeasurable good. From 18 to 20, there was to be...

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... judgment conditioned, as they would not be making any political decisions. "It seems, then, that the power that consists in everyone's doing his own work rivals wisdom, moderation and courage in its contribution to the virtue of the city" (Republic 433). The exhibition of the moderation virtue is that philosophers rule and they as rulers are responsible for the ... thus they that have the virtue of wisdom. Secondly, it is the guardians who are in charge of defending the city against all enemies, and their virtue is that of courage as they face dangers without regards to their personal r...

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... definitely lead to injustice. Socrates polishes off the remainder of his argument by stating that the way of life of a man should be a guardian of the State; for they have courage and are never too lazy to protect the city from an enemy. The men who have plenty of possessions, however, become greedy and turn against their fellow citizens. During Socrates ... a question to Socrates, asking what Socrates would do if someone blamed him for the economic condition of the man. Socrates responds, first of all, that if a man lives by education, courage, and self-mastery, he should have no troub...

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... the search for truth outside the cave. A third and final passage from Nietzsche that can bear direct relevance to the cave allegory is: "Even the bravest of us rarely has courage for what he knows - Despite how brave and how much we would like to escape from the cave, we rarely have the nerve to actually stand up for the reality ... I must abandon all my preconceived notions and beliefs, even my belief in a higher being. He also instilled in me the notion that even after I find the truth, I must summon the courage to be able to stand up for it, and escape Plato's Cave....

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... to Plato, Socrates broke down the perfect city into three parts; each part is tied to a specific virtue that he believes will help define justice. The three virtues are wisdom, courage, and moderation. Wisdom is the whole knowledge, which describes the rulers of the city. The rulers should be the ones who incorporate philosophy and ruling together to rule the city ... wisely. Courage describes the guardians, who's job was to defend the city from invasion and take new lands for the city. The third virtue of the ideal city was moderation which is ... ...

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... there are those who are born to farm and those who are " by nature good at remembering, quick to learn, high-minded, graceful, and a friend and relative of truth, justice, courage, and moderation- (Plato 161), and thus fit to rule. Plato's political system is not concerned with promoting liberty and equal distribution of power. " [I]t isn't the laws concern to make any ... rule of the guardians. And further, if indeed the ruler and the ruled in any city share the same belief about who should rule, it is in this one Unlike courage and wisdom moderation spread throughout the whole. It mak...

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... to find definitions for things was that they were stuck in case-based, specific examples. Does bravery mean fighting against a person stronger than yourself, or does it mean having the courage to back down from the fight and accept the insults of cowardice that come with that; does it mean having the determination to turn your father in for murder, or ... the city, and are all fully educated philosophers--they represent wisdom in the city. The auxiliaries are less educated than the guardians, but still well-educated; they fight and represent courage. The rest of the population receives ...

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... than blind?" (487c3-c4) Philosophers have the keenest sight into reality. They are educated from earliest childhood to act in harmony with the four excellences of human nature: wisdom, moderation, courage, and justice. The true philosophers are different breeds of people from the average citizen; therefore, their ways of displaying the four virtues are different in quality. Wisdom is revealed by ... love of truth and by their continual devotion to the spirit of truthfulness. Moderation is manifested by their disregard of physical pleasures and by their immense delight in intellectual bl...

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... virtues are to be understood as falling at the mean between to vices. Aristotle's doctrine is represented in the following manner. Vice of Deficiency Virtuous Mean Vice of Excess Cowardliness Courage Rashness Insensibility Temperance Intemperance Illiberality Liberality Prodigality Pettiness Munificence Vulgarity Humble-Mildness High-Mildness Vaingloriness Want of Ambition Right Ambition Over Ambition Spiritless ness Good Temper Irascibility Surliness Friendly Civility ... the mean of that particular virtue, he or she then makes the right choice. Leadership often involves ambiguity, whi...

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... upon what is good, what is right. Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal virtues. The four virtues consist of, courage, temperance, wisdom and justice. For Socrates a virtue is a particular thing or attribute. It is something possessed by the individual. Socrates holds that the principal virtue for man is justice or ... in and of themselves.""(348C) We will later in the work learn better what Socrates means when he says justice "the agreement of the first three cardinal virtues wisdom, courage, temperance that when in har...

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... there are those who are born to farm and those who are " by nature good at remembering, quick to learn, high-minded, graceful, and a friend and relative of truth, justice, courage, and moderation- (Plato 161), and thus fit to rule. Plato's political system is not concerned with promoting liberty and equal distribution of power. " [I]t isn't the laws concern to make any ... rule of the guardians. And further, if indeed the ruler and the ruled in any city share the same belief about who should rule, it is in this one Unlike courage and wisdom moderation spread throughout the whole. It mak...

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... , just to persuade them, for this would be a shameful act, something completely unworthy of Socrates morals and virtues. In a sense Socrates courage in the face of death presents him as a martyr for his philosophies. This act shows us that courage to stand up for what you believe in is a virtue of a good man. Aside from the above examples, the apology is full ... ...

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... different citizens' strata that correspond to three parts of soul, the stratum of philosophers, corresponding to rational soul with wisdom as its virtue, the stratum of warriors, whose virtue is courage, the stratum of craftsmen, the desiring part of soul, with abstinence as its primary virtue, conforming to it. Such a division of aims detracts nothing from the principle of justice, as ... them to vices. For instance, he contrasts the virtue of magnanimity to vanity as "excess-, on the one hand side and to cowardice as "shortage- on the other. He considers courage as middle between impr...

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... heroes performing indecent and immoral acts. Therefore, Plato aims to censor all immoral poetry containing vice of any kind, "false stories" with bad representations of gods or heroes that discourages courage by heightening the guardian's fear of death, encourages extreme laughter, inspires lying by anyone other than rulers, discourages moderation, and teaches that injustice is profitable. Literature that contains honesty, loyalty ... feels that this is all extremely important in order to not corrupt the young guardians. Proper musical training is also an important part of Plato's educa...

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... that mean he admits that he was doing wrong. Therefore, he believes if he escapes that mean he admits that he was doing wrong. Also, Socrates was tremendously brave and courage to drink the poison and die instead of fleeing to another country. His action always corresponds to the outcome of his reasoning about escaping. By drinking the hemlock and ending ... ...

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... upon her from day to day, till love of her fills your hearts; and then when all her greatness shall break upon you, you must reflect that it was by courage, sense of duty, and a keen feeling of honor in action that men were enabled to win all this, and that no personal failure in enterprise could make them consent to ... ...

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... . This kind of desire compels the person to want to eat and to satisfy their bodily needs. The spirited, the desire for passion, and victory, focuses on honor and loves courage. The last desire, the rational, is the reasoning part of man and is the part that loves truth and wisdom. Since it sounds confusing and complicated, Plato uses an allegory ... ...

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... that had preceded them. Because of this, they started to change the meanings of words as they saw fit. For example, Thucydides states, "reckless daring is held to be loyal courage. Prudent delay is the excuse of a coward. Moderation is the disguise of unmanly weakness. To know everything is to do nothing. Frantic energy is the true quality of a man. A conspirator ... ...

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... . Nobody will have a house or treasure that isn't open to all. The guarders will have a common life and eat in a common place. The power of the people will come from courage. "Power to preserve under all circumstances the right, lawful opinion of what is and is not to be feared"(430b), Socrates will say that the people in the city who ... ...

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... in order to keep this society going it would be necessary and perfectly okay to lie and still be just. His society will be instilled with four essential virtues; wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice- each with it's own purpose. After all the discussion of this perfect society they come to terms with its reality. Would this ever really come about? Certainly ... ...

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... nature of human well-being. Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-lived life (40). Like Plato, he regards the ethical virtues (justice, courage, temperance and so on) as complex rational, emotional and social skills." Kraut, from Stanford University, explains Aristotle's rejection of Plato's ethic theory that one must study sciences and metaphysics for ... ...

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... therefore free of them. He is a philosopher and there is no greater victory or honor than those won by the philosopher. Philosophic insight needs to be won, it requires extraordinary courage, and it is the rarest of victories, and therefore it is the most satisfying of victories, ( Book IX, 585b-e). By Socrates standards there is no greater honor because nothing else ... ...

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